Author: Vedant Bhosale

Preventive care significantly improves health outcomes—cancer screening alone has added as many as 16 million years to people’s collective lifespans. Yet only about 5% of adults receive the screenings recommended for their risk factors.   That isn’t a gap. It’s a chasm.  Preventive care detects serious illnesses early, when treatment is most effective. With 90% of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care…

For decades, the relationship between payers and providers has been defined by misaligned incentives, fragmented data, and operational friction. Yet as financial pressures intensify and value-based care accelerates, that long-standing dynamic is beginning to shift. Increasingly, organizations are embracing integrated…

Health plans have rapidly embraced AI for multiple use cases and leaders are focused on creating measurable performance improvement and achieving front-line buy-in. To learn more about how health plans are leveraging AI to improve payment integrity and performance, Becker’s…

If you work in the Talent or HR department at your organization, you know how important benefits plan design is for retaining and attracting talent. A recent survey found that employees who are satisfied with their benefits are 1.8x more…

In healthcare, success has always depended on collaboration, but never more so than today. As the industry continues its transition from fee-for-service to value-based care (VBC), it’s become clear that progress depends on how well payers, providers and patients align…

Emergency departments are increasingly overburdened by long wait times, complex patient cases and limited visibility into care history. But during a session at the Fall 2025 Becker’s Payer Issues Roundtable, participants argued that these transition points — if better coordinated…

At the Fall 2025 Becker’s Payer Issues Roundtable, CareSource Senior Vice President Todd Carlson participated in a fireside chat on how the nonprofit payer is modernizing its technology infrastructure to deliver more personalized, efficient and scalable healthcare. In partnership with…

Obesity treatment is entering a transformative era — and few therapies have garnered more attention or raised more questions than GLP-1 receptor agonists. In a featured session at Becker’s Fall 2025 Payer Issues Roundtable, Lia Gass Rodriguez, MD, chief medical…

Health plans are no longer treating interoperability as a check-the-box requirement; they are embracing it as a driver of strategic transformation. That was the core message from a featured session at Becker’s Fall 2025 Payer Issues Roundtable, where a panel…

AI continues to hold promise for transforming healthcare operations, but realizing that potential requires more than plug-and-play solutions. In a featured session at Becker’s Fall 2025 Payer Issues Roundtable, leaders from Raport and Precision Medicine Diagnostic Partners explored what it…